Mulhouse (M 1052)
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The Mühlhausen was a mine diving boat of the German Navy .
It was launched on June 30, 1966 at the Burmester shipyard in Bremen and named Walther von Ledebur . The ship was the prototype for a new class of deep-sea minesweepers . After the decision was made against building the new class, the Walther von Ledebur was used from 1967 with a civilian crew as a test boat for the military technical department . In 1994 she was decommissioned.
In the same year the German Navy decided to convert the Walther von Ledebur into a mine diving boat and to put it into service as a replacement for the mine diving boat Stier . The conversion took place in 1994/95 at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast . On April 6, 1995 the Walther von Ledebur was put into service under the name Mühlhausen (M 1052). From now on, the ship was manned by a military crew and subordinated to the weapons diving group in Eckernförde . The Mühlhausen was used as a training ship for the mine divers , but also served as a mission ship.
In the summer of 2003, the weapon divers , and with them the Mühlhausen, were placed under the newly established Marine Specialized Forces (SEKM) as part of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr.
The Mühlhausen (Class 742A) had a hull made of mahogany in glued wood construction (i.e. without screws or bolts). Until it was decommissioned, it was the largest warship of this type in the world that was still in active service. It was decommissioned on June 20, 2007 in Wilhelmshaven. Their successors were the former mine-hunting boats Rottweil and "Bad Rappenau" of the Frankenthal class , which are now serving as class 332B mine diving boats in the 3rd minesweeping squadron in Kiel.
literature
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 10 : Collective chapter submarines, survey and research vessels, experimental and test vessels, naval air force, person and ship registers. . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 49 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Frieda von Ledebur: FGS Walther v. Ledebur